The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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It’s all about long-term, sustaining relationships.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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School is basically about one point of view – the one the teacher has or the textbooks have.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.
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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Yazılım konusunda iddialı insanlar kendi donanımlarını yapmalılar.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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